My first reaction when all of this started was how do you cover agencies which cooperate with other countries agencies? I remember thinking about that when I f

My first reaction when all of this started was how do you cover agencies which cooperate with other countries agencies? I remember thinking about that when I first heard about ECHELON [1], which was at the time seems like a great get out of jail free card. Any of the participants of the system can deny they are doing anything specific because it's handled by another agency. Even more liability is farmed out if you use 3rd parties to do the actual work: "Is GCHQ storing information on UK citizens?", "No" (its all in Amazons S3). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON